Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1809-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1809-2020
Model evaluation paper
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06 Apr 2020
Model evaluation paper |  | 06 Apr 2020

Verification of the regional atmospheric model CCLM v5.0 with conventional data and lidar measurements in Antarctica

Rolf Zentek and Günther Heinemann

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We used the climate model CCLM to simulate the Weddell Sea region with a resolutions of 15 and 5 km. By adjusting the turbulence parametrization a warm bias over the Antarctic Plateau was removed. For sea ice we found a temperature bias around +/-1 K and a wind speed bias of 1 m s-1. Comparisons of radio soundings showed a bias around zero and a RMSE of 1–2 K for temperature and 3–4 m s-1 for wind speed. Comparison with wind Doppler lidar yielded almost no bias and a RMSE of ca. 2 m s-1.
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